St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-25
THEY TOOK The TOWN
A Minneapolis Family That
DaZzled a Staid New Eng
land City.
Bridgeport Thrown Into Con-
vulsions at the Prodigal-
ity Of the Visitors.
A Weeks Credit Shakes the
Financial Security of the
Whole Neighborhood,
And the Local Press INDUCES
In Gossip 1t Is Compelled
to Take Back.

The town of Bridgeport, Conn.,, built
by p. L. Baruum, and paid for largely
by the united contributions of the lovers
of circus lemonade and the admirers of
woody horses and sacred white ele-
plants through the Uuited States, has
had a sensation which even now fur
nishes the principal topic of converse
ton at the meetings of the Dorcas
society, the cuttings, husking bees and
other gatherings of select social
nature. This unwonted state of feveriSh
excitement was occaSioned by the ad-
vent last spring of Minneapolis family
consisting of a mother and two daugh-
tiers. According to the Morning News,
which deYOteS column to the interest
ing subject. the family name was Cash
man, but there is some doubt as to
the papers accuracy upon the point.
The fact. however, that Minneapolis
family of somewhat similar name did
spend the summer at Bridgeport, may
add some interest to the story, which,
by the News own subsequent state
ment. appears to have been incorrect in
certain particulars, and perhaps in toto.
The funniest part of the whole affair is
the way in which the financial acumen
VI Ilt -NtM Elk oSSCIGS 1lStll
the motive which causes the apparently
inGocent dOings of the family to con-
tribute to newspaper sensation. Ac-
cOrding TO the News the family en-
gagged board at heightened boarding
house on Fairfield avenue, and repOr-
tOrial enterprise has been rewarded by
the discovery that when they went to
the Atlantic house ''they were month
behind on their board bill, but were
compelled to settle before they left
this place."
full to the point of exclusiveness. The daugh-
tiers. Sarah and Susie, were handsome, and
exclusive also. All three dressed elegantly
and carried themselves like people of the
best breeding.
They made rapid Roadway in the good
graces of the very best people Of Bridgeport
In fact they would have nothing to do with
anything below that high standard The first
young men paid attention to the daughters
and went wild over their beauty and varied
gocial accomplishments.
The mother watched it all wish solicituda
truly charming. If the young ladies rode
with the young men, as they sometimes did,
the fond parent was eaten up by anxiety I'M
til they returned. The daughters were equally
careful and so the play went on for weeks.
Some of the sisters of the infatuated young
gentlemen met the charming vonng ladies
more than half way, and asked them to enter
the inner circles.
at would take columns" the News
signs, ito describe now the acQuaint-
ances thus formed and ripened into
closer friendship
The Bridgeport SWANS, however, soon
received a shock, for
Presently it was discovered in some way
that one of the young women who had been
passing for single lady was in reality mar
RED This was genuine SET back to some Of
the more innocent young men who had been
hanging around her pathway like moths
around an electric light. II should be eX-
planned that by this time many of the most
paving assiduous court TO the beauties. Some
of them had an idea of marrying the girls
Some of them hadn't. If reports speak true
The counting and lavish attentions were by
no means confined to the young men, or to
the unmarried men. Gray heads and hearts
already bound by legal chains, bowed before
the far Western shrines and worshiped deep
and often.
TO float to the surface after while. we'll
known Young man. belonging to one of the
first families. was swept into what looked
for time like particularly deep whirlpool.
He had been doing as the rest had done He
paid one OF the young women much atten-
lion. One day he was notified that he must
marry her, as he had ruined her
This was unpleasant. The case was dis
cuSsed with the usual sentimental adjuncts
but finally assumed u more business-lke as
pect. He was tryir=. it is said. to arrange the
terms OF money settlement, when the end
came and he ESCAPED.
The rooms occupied at the Atlantic hotel
were SO arranged that people on the opposite
side Of the street couid look in through the
windows. What they saw set them to think
ing. and nod something to do with fastening
the chapter to close.
The attentions which the fair Mime
apolitans received evidently inspired
the jealOusies of the old maids of the
village to frantic efforts prove that
they lacked tony as Mrs. Gen. Gil
fOry would express it. and of course
their financial reputation was attacked
as the most vital point of character. 1t
was tattled around that the mother pre-
tended she had lost her gold watch and
lit wasn't long before number of her
young gentlemen friends had contrib
uted literally toward buying new
one" 1t was said that the trio owed
the Atlantic hotel about $500 and that
they left their trunks and alleged da-
mondS behind as security until the bill
was paid" and then the paper naively
adds: ''This is vigorously denied at the
hotel, where it is asserted the mother
and daughters spent about $1,000 for
board and extras during the three
months they staid at the hotel"
Then the News StatiStician figures
out that if they only received $500
month from a son and brother at New
York. as claimed, that they must have
had ''other resources to the extent of at
least 500 a month to have settled i'm
FULL This interesting discovery is fol-
lowed by the wall:
Others who furnished goods on credit
claim that they also have been paid Others
keep still. hoping to yet get their money!
while still others say they have not vet been
paid. Most everybody is keeping quiet about
the affair. No one wants 10 admit that he
was once part of the long train of worship
pers who burned incense for the benefit of
The lovely daughters; but for all that this
with unflagging interest by wide circle of
those who know.
1t was costly trip though. for somebody.
AS one of the moths expressed it, 'the boys
spent loads of money on en-
1t can be easily seen to what length
the paper went in its effort to find
something to say of aderogatory nature.
il claims in its issue of Sept. Z that
"they (the family managed soon to owe
more or less siZeable bills at various
dry goods stores, milliners, cloak max
ers, dressmakers, livery stables and
other places. At one livery stable their
bill was S165. They owed one dress
maker 800, and there were other bills
of equal importance. When requested
to settle they made plausible excuse
for deiinquencies, and said it would be
all right as soon as they received their
next monthly remittance from the son
in New York; and in its issue of Sept.
10 is compelled to state:
There are many people who have never
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